{"id":327069,"date":"2020-09-30T10:58:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T10:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327069"},"modified":"2020-09-30T10:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T10:58:14","slug":"babri-verdict-counter-to-sc-judgment-constitutional-spirit-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/babri-verdict-counter-to-sc-judgment-constitutional-spirit-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Babri verdict counter to SC judgment, constitutional spirit: Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-327095 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/surjewala-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/surjewala-1.jpg 567w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/surjewala-1-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/surjewala-1-500x420.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/>The Congress party on Wednesday said that the decision of the special CBI court to acquit all the accused in Babri Masjid demolition case runs counter to the Supreme Court\u2019s\u00a0judgment and also the constitutional spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe decision of the special court to acquit all the accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case runs counter to the Supreme Court judgment as also the Constitutional spirit. The Supreme Court in its judgment dated November 9, 2019 pronounced by five-judges clearly held that demolition of Babri Masjid as a clear illegality and \u2018egregious violation of the rule of law\u2019,\u201d Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBut the Special Court exonerated all the Accused. It is clear that the decision of the Special Court runs counter to the decision of the Supreme Court of India,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Surjewala further said that every Indian who has innate faith in the Constitution and in the spirit of communal amity and brotherhood expects and urges the central and state governments to file an appeal against the decision of the special court and follow the letter of the law and the Constitution, without any partiality and pre-meditated prejudice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe entire country witnessed a deep-rooted political conspiracy by BJP-RSS and its leaders to destroy the country&#8217;s communal amity and brotherhood for usurping power at any cost,\u201d Surjewala said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Surjewala further said, \u201cthe then BJP Government of Uttar Pradesh was a co-conspirator in the designed attack on India\u2019s Constitutional ethos. So much so that the Supreme Court was misled by filing a wrong Affidavit on oath. It is only after detailed examination of all these aspects, facts and evidence that the Supreme Court held the demolition of Masjid to be an egregious violation of the rule of law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All the 32 accused in the Babri demolition case were on Wednesday acquitted by a special CBI court.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress party on Wednesday said that the decision of the special CBI court to acquit all the accused in Babri Masjid demolition case runs counter to the Supreme Court\u2019s\u00a0judgment and also the constitutional spirit. \u201cThe decision of the special court to acquit all the accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case runs counter to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":327095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[13518,236,2311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327097,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327069\/revisions\/327097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}